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Tripartite Alignment
Hinted in Official
Roman Paper.
ROME, Oct. 26. (AP)—A tripartite alignment against communism—including Italy, Germany and Japan—was hinted
today in the newspaper Giornale
d'ltalia by the authoritative
commentator, Virginio Gayda.
"Against communism fascist
Italy and national socialist Germany have decisively reared up in
the name of European and world
collaboration," Gayda wrote. "We
are glad to note far-away Japan
also adheres to these positions
owing to similarity of views and
purposes."
Gayda, often described as the
"unofficial spokesman of the fascist
government," said this about
Japan:
"Japan is the advanced sentinel
of a living, constructive civilization
in the Pacific which sustains an
open fight for the defense of the
entire Asiatic continent against the
corrosions of communism.
Manchu Affair Recalled.
"Japan also left Geneva (the
league of nations) owing to the incomprehension of the league in her
vital problem in Manchoukuo
which was equal to the incomprehension demonstrated in the Italian problem in Ethiopia."
Italy and Germany, Gayda as-
serted, will not be influenced by
"soviet provocations in the so-
called nonintervention committee
in London."
Rather, the writer declared, the
two totalitarian powers will "repel
them by every means if they go
beyond the limits of gratuitous denunciations and paper propaganda."
Agreement Reached.
An Italo-German agreement by
which the two countries will collaborate on major problems was
disclosed in a communique announcing the conclusion of conversation with Hitler and Konstantin
von Neurath, German foreign
minister, by an Italian mission
headed by Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano.
The communique gave plain
warning the two totalitarian nations had submerged their differences and would unify their
policies to confront what they regard as common threats to their
security and ambitions.
Drafted after Hitler received
Ciano at his Bavarian estate yesterday, the announcement enu-
merated six points on which agreement had been reached.
They were: The Locarno pact,
the league of nations, the Spanish
civil war, the Danubian basin including Austria, bilateral economic
cooperation and a united front
against communism.
Details were withheld but the
statement did not imply any formal
alliance or treaty.

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Tripartite Alignment
Hinted in Official
Roman Paper.
ROME, Oct. 26. (AP)—A tripartite alignment against communism—including Italy, Germany and Japan—was hinted
today in the newspaper Giornale
d'ltalia by the authoritative
commentator, Virginio Gayda.
"Against communism fascist
Italy and national socialist Germany have decisively reared up in
the name of European and world
collaboration," Gayda wrote. "We
are glad to note far-away Japan
also adheres to these positions
owing to similarity of views and
purposes."
Gayda, often described as the
"unofficial spokesman of the fascist
government," said this about
Japan:
"Japan is the advanced sentinel
of a living, constructive civilization
in the Pacific which sustains an
open fight for the defense of the
entire Asiatic continent against the
corrosions of communism.
Manchu Affair Recalled.
"Japan also left Geneva (the
league of nations) owing to the incomprehension of the league in her
vital problem in Manchoukuo
which was equal to the incomprehension demonstrated in the Italian problem in Ethiopia."
Italy and Germany, Gayda as-
serted, will not be influenced by
"soviet provocations in the so-
called nonintervention committee
in London."
Rather, the writer declared, the
two totalitarian powers will "repel
them by every means if they go
beyond the limits of gratuitous denunciations and paper propaganda."
Agreement Reached.
An Italo-German agreement by
which the two countries will collaborate on major problems was
disclosed in a communique announcing the conclusion of conversation with Hitler and Konstantin
von Neurath, German foreign
minister, by an Italian mission
headed by Foreign Minister Count
Galeazzo Ciano.
The communique gave plain
warning the two totalitarian nations had submerged their differences and would unify their
policies to confront what they regard as common threats to their
security and ambitions.
Drafted after Hitler received
Ciano at his Bavarian estate yesterday, the announcement enu-
merated six points on which agreement had been reached.
They were: The Locarno pact,
the league of nations, the Spanish
civil war, the Danubian basin including Austria, bilateral economic
cooperation and a united front
against communism.
Details were withheld but the
statement did not imply any formal
alliance or treaty.